A PARISIAN DISCOVERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PARISIAN DISCOVERY.

When scientific men demonstrate, almost to a certainty, that you can make away with a woman by sending her to sleep and then placing a little strychnine or some other poisonous vegetable alkaloid near her, it is high time for justice to bestir itself, seeing that a crime of this description leaves no trace. Experiments in proof of this were lately made by Dr. Luys, of Paris, and communicated to the Academy of Medicine. A committee was immediately appointed for the purpose of investigatingtheexperiments, but, pending the publication of the report, Dr. Luys has continued his researches, which were first suggested to him by MM. Bouru and Bonn, of ftochefort. The doctor proves that by placing a tube filled with brandy on the back of a hypnotised patient's head you can make that patient drunk. A young woman, a cataleptic patient, was sent into a deep sleep when morphia was placed near her neck. When subjected in a similar manner to the action of "hashish," while in a state of lucid somnambulism, the woman became boisterously joyful, and treated the doctor and his pupils to a refrain from the " Mascot While she was still singing the doctor withdrew the tube of " hashish" by degrees, and the voice gradually fell until it died away. The strain was again taken up when the tube was brought near the patient, and when the essence was quickly withdrawn the woman sank helplessly into the anns of a student. It is no wonder that the learned Academy of Medicine should have token steps to test Dr Luy's experiments, and time to give a verdict on their probable results and their medico-legal aspects.